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Stakeholder workshop 3 February 2006
EU Review – UK Response
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EU Review – UK Response
• Introductions
• Key themes
• Stakeholder responses & questions
• Next steps
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UK response - intro
• Government-Ofcom paper (DTI lead)
• Published by 10 February
• Wider stakeholder meeting early March
• Communication expected July
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Consistency
• Lisbon ICT agenda
• Infosecurity agenda – communication expected Spring 2006
• E-Commerce Directive – due for review in 2007
• Data Protection Directive – review due
• Data Retention Directive
• Television Without Frontiers Directive – currently under review
• Fiscal policies, e.g. E-money and payments Directives
• Premium Rate Services agenda – note workshop on 2/2/06
• Spam Agenda – Communication expected Spring 2006
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Scope
• About right but watch interdependencies (previous slide)
• Question need for a separate privacy Directive for ecomms.
• Lessons learned from Ofcom’s SRT
• Objectives still valid and should not be prioritised
• Future Proof/tech neutral increasingly important
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Single market issues
• Effective implementation essential (& enforcement)
• Harmonisation
– OK for genuine x-border services, e.g. VOIP, large business products
– Do not support harmonisation of remedies – national discretion important
• ERG best placed to achieve proportionate harmonisation
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Spectrum management
• Support use of market mechanisms in principle
• Trading should be encouraged
• No explicit support of mandated bands for trading
• Agnostic that bands need to be held back for pan-European services
• Recognise exceptions, e.g. broadcasting, radio astronomy & satellite.
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Competition & Access
• NGNs: regulatory holidays are not necessary and don’t work
• Oligopolies
• Coherent regulation across value chain
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Consumers
• Voice USO – right time to have a “voice” USO rather than “fixed” or “mobile”?
• Broadband USO – debate needed on scenarios
• Disabled users – terminal equipment and equivalent services
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Privacy & Security
• Telephony aspects ok (TPS & FPS)
• Consent rules are data protection issue
• Note Spam Communication
• Network resilience as we move to IP
• “Bad” internet traffic – link with e-Commerce Directive
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Institutional aspects
• Spectrum management working well
• Transparency - ERG, Commission, Process
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Other issues
• No need for list of standards for interoperability
• Special provisions for leased lines no longer needed
• Fining powers – scope to increase
• R&TTE – definitions
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Relevant markets
• Any revision should be based on better regulation principles
• E.g. scope for merging or grouping inter-related markets